Fareed Zakaria on The Daily Show, The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria was on The Daily Show talking about The Post-American World which is now available in paperback. Fareed recently wrote an article saying that Pakistan is about to fall to the Taliban, and since they have nuclear weapons, this could be trouble. We apparently gave them ten billion dollars and they used it to prepare [...]
Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men on The Daily Show
Richard Beeman was on The Daily Show discussing his new book Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Basically Richard and Jon’s discussion centered around the fact that the men who built our Constitution came together even though they disagreed. They all were able to agree that they had to [...]
Philip Alcabes and his book Dread on The Daily Show
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on The Daily Show
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was on The Daily Show promoting her new book, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President. What’s sad is her discussion with Jon goes pretty much like you would imagine. Before Ellen was president, the leaders were corrupt men who [...]
Reza Aslan on The Daily Show
Jon and Ron Darling and Steven and Susie Orbach
The Daily Show Ron Darling was the guest on The Daily Show tonight. It was one of those interviews where he was clearly there to promote his book, The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound and nothing else. These days I often skip over the interviews on The Daily [...]